Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Two-time Pulitzer-winning historian of American political culture
1916, Buffalo, New York, United States — 1970, New York City, United States
United States
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Hofstadter was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of American political culture, best known for 'The Age of Reform', 'Anti-Intellectualism in American Life' and the essay 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics'. He taught for decades at Columbia University and shaped how Americans understand their own political traditions. His father, Emil Hofstadter, was Jewish, giving him Jewish ancestry on the paternal side.
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Two-time Pulitzer-winning historian of American political culture
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